Farm combine, minivan collide leaving 3 dead, 3 injured

9:54 PM,
Nov. 1, 2012

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WEST POINT, Ind. - Farmers operating heavy equipment and drivers navigating curving, two-lane country roads are accustomed to sharing the highway in this part of Tippecanoe County, where expansive fields used for corn, soybeans and wheat never seem to end.

Yet it was here, at a crossroads 10 miles southwest of Lafayette, that a massive John Deere farm combine apparently rolled through a stop sign and onto a busier-than-you-might-expect highway, colliding violently with a minivan carrying six people. Three people in the van were killed - a mother, father and daughter.